Open Source EHR Systems Spreading Across Hawaii and the Pacific Rim

The following is a quick update on the slow but steady increase in the use of 'open source' electronic health record (EHR) systems in Hawaii and other U.S. Territories across the Pacific Rim as of April 2013. See the map of healthcare facilities running some variant of the open source VistA electronic health record (EHR) system

In Hawaii, all of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare facilities are continuing to use the well known, award winning VistA system. VA healthcare facilities using VistA include the:

Other private clinics in Guam are planning to use the RPMS system if the Guam Community Health Centers (CHC) are successful in using a Network Development Grant to help the private providers.

Aside from VistA and RPMS, there are also a growing number of healthcare facilities in Pacific Rim countries using other open source EHR systems like OpenMRS and OpenEMR. As stated before, healthcare facilities using open source EHR systems are steadily increasing and spreading across Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.

* See the emerging map of all healthcare facilities across the U.S. and around the world that have installed or are using VistA,RPMS or some other variant of the system, e.g. CHCS, OpenVistA, vxVistA, WorldVistA..